ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Drying of fruit is an age-old preservation technique that even to this day,
remains popular. On the foreign markets there is a trend towards dried fruit
products that are softer and more palatable. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study shows Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy's application
on wine, fruit and dried fruit for quantitative determinations or as a discriminative
method for classification ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dried fruit is a well-known food product that has been produced for many years. The
product characteristics have remained constant throughout this time with a moisture
content of ca. 18 - 26% (mlm). ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Potential beneficial and/or adverse modulatory effects of polyphenol-enriched extracts of
rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) and honeybush (Cyclopia spp.) on the antioxidant homeostasis in
the liver were ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The effect of drying conditions on the retention of harpagoside, a glucoside iridoid found in the
indigenous Southern African plant Harpagophytum procumbens (Devil's Claw), was investigated.
Additionally, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The flavanone aglycones, hesperetin and eriodictyol, have been identified as potential taste modulators
with reported sweetness-enhancing and bitterness-masking properties, respectively. Reduction of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The sensory profiles and the phenolic composition of C. genistoides, C. longifolia, C. maculata and
C. subternata, used for commercial production of honeybush tea, were determined with the aim to
develop ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rooibos tea, produced from the endemic South African fynbos plant Aspalathus linearis, has various healthpromoting
benefits which can largely be attributed to its phenolic composition. In this study, the ...